Office Products, Office Supplies, Office Furniture, Toner, Custom Stamps: EZ Office Products

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Bristol Schumacher Conference Oct 17 2009

You've Made Contact. Now How Do You Make The Sale?

Dane Buy Local Guides - 2010/2011
Pick up the latest copy of "where to buy". Dane Buy Local Guides are available online at EZ Office Products or stop in to see one of your neighbors serving as distribution points:

East Side: Absolutely Art (2322 Atwood Ave); EZ Office Products (2838 Progress Rd); Home Savings Bank (3762 E Washington Ave)
Southeast Side: Home Savings Bank (44 W Main St, Stoughton)
South Side: designCraft Advertising (707 S Park St)
Uptown/Central: A Room of One's Own Bookstore (307 W Johnson St); Home Savings Bank (2 S Carroll St); Isthmus Publishing (101 King St); University Bookstore (State St)
West Side: Home Savings Bank (7701 Mineral Point Rd); University Bookstore (Hilldale Mall)

Industrial Ecology & Zero Waste Calls For Whole System Approach
by Gary Molz February 2010
Reuse, Repair, or Recycle toner products back to nature or the marketplace to eliminate waste. Gary Molz uses industry experience to communicate ways. Watch Video

From The Ashes of the Crash: Rebuilding the New Economics
by Stacy Mitchell October 2009
Scattered here and there, the seeds of a new economy are taking root...Support for independent business is on the rise...Corporations want desperately to turn the local economy movement into nothing more than a cheap marketing trick they can use for their own gain. This new variation of corporate green-washing is called "local-washing". Question: "Will it backfire on corporations?" Clearly, corporations are spending exorbitant amounts of money as they detect a sizeable shift in public attitude about where we should buy. Unfortunately, we have made rules that privilege the global over the local and have undermined our own democracy. Let's externalize the logic of corporations and embrace a vigorous anti-monopoly policy, Let's adopt planning policies that support local economies and channel our investment capital in directions that nurture community and rebuild our local economy.

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Researchers Develop Better Understanding of Economics on Buying Locally from Service Firms
The premise that locally-owned and operated businesses in both retail and service sectors generate greater local economic activity than their chain counterparts has become widely understood and accepted. In communities across the nation and abroad, public policy has adapted to this reality through a variety of planning and zoning tools.

This study by Civic Economics provides evidence of the strength local suppliers have on our local economy that are not retail firms by putting a dollar value to the impact.

EZ Office Products Steadfast Support of 2PL (Second Party Logistics)
Many of our customers have five to 20 offices spread across the county. By using a national network of locally owned resellers like EZOP, all supporting their own local economies and all sharing the same focus on service, we are able to continue to provide one of our best attributes.

“As far as the customer is concerned, 2PL is quite a tool. The customer orders supplies from the office supply company used by their corporate office, yet they're delivered by a local office supply company. Collectively, it's a pooling of resources to both provide better service to customers and to help out another reseller in another market.” ~ Gary Molz, Vice President EZ Office Products
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Gary Molz Presents "You've Made Contact, Now How Do You Make The Sale" At GMCC Chamber Cafe
As the driving force behind the fast-paced sales growth of Madison's leading independently owned provider of office supplies, Gary Molz is asked to present EZ Office Products' strategy on making the sale. The event was hosted by the Girl Scouts of Black Council, 2710 Ski Ln in Madison on October 21, 2008.

Market Research Reveals Majority of Items at Office Supply Chain Stores Are Not As Low As You Think
The chain stores are experts at mixing the pricing to achieve the maximum amount of profit while attempting to fool the consumer with low pricing on loss leader items. In fact, it is quite common for the office supply chain stores to price items substantially higher than manufacturer suggested list price.
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Learn Why Staples, Office Depot, Office Max, and Other Big Box Stores Eliminate Jobs In Our Community
Do you know what the Big Box Swindle is? Why can't you take advantage of the sales tax Geoffrey loophole? Were you are aware that a new Wal-Mart store opening eliminates 180 more jobs than it creates? Have you thought about why city/town planners and officicials are responsible for the epidemic of dark malls? Learn how the Big Box retailers spoof you into thinking that their prices are lower across the board than they actually are with their sophisticated strategies of "signposts" and "blinds".
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SEC Probes Office Depot
Did they violate Federal Securities Laws? February 26, 2008 commences the beginning of a formal investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission into whether Office Depot violated federal securities laws. The SEC is also reviewing other matters including inventory receipt, timing of vendor payments, timing of recognition of vendor program funds and certain "intercompany loans".
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